Johnny Laws

Johnny Laws serves as Collateral Reviewer and Collateral Underwriter with Finance of America-Commercial. He is a real estate appraisal and valuation compliance professional well experienced in residential appraisal, operational procedures, risk analysis, quality assurance, and problem solving. He ensures operational procedures and practices for appraisal management for compliance with FACo policy and investor guidelines, along with: USPAP, Valuation Methodology, Operations Management, and Collateral Valuation Regulations. Johnny possesses extensive knowledge of residential appraisal methodology within the lending industry through his many years of financial services experience. He is a leader whose honesty and integrity create effective leadership and optimal business relationships, and is passionate about training, developing processes, and coaching others to meet high-performance quality and production standards.

The residential real estate appraisal process is usually about the same regardless of the client. Of course, there are the expected differences from lender to lender and those differences are usually spelled out in the engagement letter. Nevertheless, the process generally doesn’t vary a great deal. The popularity of some of the newer lending products are beginning to challenge that …